Garment-hanger.



G. WORDINGHAM.

GAHMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED Aus.2a, 1911.

1,251,948. I Patented Jan. 1, 1918,

UNITED sTArnslATENT OFFICE.

emotion WOBDINGHAM, or MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

GARMENT-HANGEB.

Application led August 23, 1917.

To all-whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE WORDINGHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers and has as its object to provide a garment han er especially adapted for the suspension of s irts, although it may at the Sametime be employed in hanging coats.

Itis one aim of the present invention to provide a garment .hanger possessing features which especially recommend it for use by ladies tailors, cleaners, and dyers for delivery purposes although the hanger is equally as well adapted for wardrobe use. Where the ordinary hanger or. hangers previously devised are employed `in the delivery ofskirts, the skirt in transportation is liable to become disengaged from the hanger and rumpled insuch amanner as to be unsatisfactor to the customer. If clasps are employed7 upon such a hanger for gripping the waist-band of theA skirt they are liable to leave an impressionin the goods'or to tear orrotherwise injure thegoods and, in fact, so far as I am aware all previously employed hangers embodying means for preventing disengagement of the skirt from the hanger are liable to injure the skirt or rumple or otherwise leave an impression in the goods. The present invention, therefore, aims further lto provide a hanger, which, while adapted ito suspend a skirt in a natural s draped condition and positively prevent its disengagement from the hanger, will, nevertheless, be in no way likely to injure the goods or leave any impresslon therein.

Another aim of the invention is to so con i struct thehanger that the body of the same vide a hanger may be readily and economically producedl frornsheet material, such, for example, as heavy straw-board or the like, the body bein cut from a blank of the material and simu taneously being so cut as to provide the :means whereby a skirt may be suspended from the body and securely held against displacement.

4 Another aim of the invention is to prodesigned for the purpose stated and in which the body of the hanger itself is so cut or formedv as provide'the means for holding a skirt against-displace Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1, 1918.

Serial No. 187,831.

ment when suspended from the han er so that the provision of separate and dlstinct elements for accomplishing this result is rendered unnecessary and the cost of producing the hanger is materially reduced.

Another aim of the invention is to provide a hanger of the class mentioned so constructed as to afford a maximum area upon 'which advertising matter may be printed,

to prevent relative turning or `rotation of. -the body and hook.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a 4front elevation of the hanger embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates the body of the hanger, which body may be readily cut in quantities by dies from blanks of thick strawboard or other similar sheet material. The lower edge of the body 1 may be straight or of any other desired contour and the upper edge of thebody is preferably inclined upwardly-from its ends toward its intermediate portion and then upwardly rounded, as at 2, so that the said upper edge of the body will more or less closely conform to the shoulders of a coat thereby adapting the body to'support such a garment. In cutting the bo'dy 1' fromJ the blank, or subsequent to the cutting o eration, the body is formed with two r orations 3 which are located relative y closey tol the ends thereof and which, while in the present instance are circular, may be of any other shape. The wall of each perforatlon 3 substantially touches the upper edgeV of therewith in the act of forcing the'loop into the recess. If desired-the wall portion 4 may be formed with an incision 5 at the time of manufacture of the body 1 or such an incision may be formed through the wall portion 4 prior to placing the article upon the market. Or, if desired, the article ma be placed u on the market with the wal portion ,4 le t intact in which event it will be broken down when the loops of a skirt or other similar garment are forced into the perforations 3. As the body 1 is formed from strawboard or other similar fibrous material, the incision 5 in the wall portion 4 of each perforation will remain substantially c losed throughout the life of the` hanger although the suspension tape or tapes o a garment may be forced through the incision either in engaging the tapein the perforation or withdrawing 'the same therefrom. Thus in F.ig. 1 of the drawings the reference character S indicates a skirtvhav- 4 ing suspension tapes or `other similar parts,

indicated by the reference character T located at its opposite sides and adapted to be drawn through the incisions 5 at the opposite ends of the hanger body and thus engaged in the perforations 3 for the purpose of suspending the said skirt from the hanger. As the material of the body 1 is, as stated, fibrous, the incisions 5 1n the walls of the perforations 3 will, as stated above, normally remain closed and, consequently, after the loops T have been engaged in the perforations 3 they will be reconnecting top strained against accidental disengagement from the perforations and therefore the skirt will not be liable to become accidentally displaced or disengaged from the hanger.

The suspension hook for the body of the hanger is indicated by the numeral 6 and this hook is attached to the bodyy of the hanger by means of a clip whichis preferably stamped from sheet metal and which comprises side portions or leaves 7 and a ortion 8. This clip is disposed to strad le the upper edge of the body 1 midwaybetween the ends of the said bodjnandits portions 7 are provided with openings which register with an opening in the said body and through which opens' .ingsy is secured an eyelet rivet 9 which serves to permanently connect the clip with the body. The upper edge of the body 1 I beneath the connectlng portion 8 of the clip v is formed with a notch 10 'and the shank of the vhook 6 is loosel1 passed through an opening 11 in the sai lconnecting portion of the clip and its lowerlend is .bent upon ing the lower end of the 1shank of the hook.

6 upon itself, as stated, the said'end of the shank is anchored in the clip 8 and as the said end of the shank is housed within the notch l() and is of a thickness equal to the thickness of the body 1 and confined between the side portions 7 of the clip, the said hook is held against turning movement with relation to the said body 1.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. In a garment hanger, a fiat body prol vided with va perforation for vthe engagement therein of a part of a garment, the perforation having a wall substantially touching one edge of the said body whereby the material of the body between the said edge and the wall of the perforation may be readily broken down to provide for ingress of the said part of the garmentinto the perforation.

2. In a garment hanger, a flat body provided with a perforation for the engagement therein of a part of a garment,vthe perforation having a. wall substantially touching one edge of the said body, the bodv being provided with an incision extending through its portion which'lies between the said edge and the said wall of the perforation.

3. In a garment hanger, a fiat body provided with a notch in its upper edge, a clip disposed 4to straddle the upper edge of the body thus closin the notch, a suspension hook f or the body having a shank fitted through the clip and extending at its lower end into the notch, the said lower end of the shank being bent upon itself tov form a broad flat sided head confined within the notch and between the sides of the clip,

the 4head occupying the plane of the body ilo 

